islam

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English entry for Islam is 5 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈɪs.lɑːm/. Corpus data places it at rank #3,502 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for Islam, with forms such as "ilsam", "isalm", and "islamm". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "isle", "issa", "islet", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed around 1610 from Arabic إِسْلَام (ʔislām, “submission, surrender”), verbal noun of أَسْلَمَ (ʔaslama), from the root س ل م (s l m). Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is Islam, spelled I-S-L-A-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.